FC3 - VMware can't remember its config after reboot

[Peter Smith]

Not so. Take a look at this:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/

"But I Really Want My Device Node!
Put them in /etc/udev/devices/, and they will get copied to /dev/."

Peter Smith

Jean-Alexander Müller wrote:

> Hello,
>
> --- just before someone is asking for a solution ---
>
> the switch to udev in FC3 requires a patch to the init.d script of
> VMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848 (and probably similar Versions).
>
> Otherwise, you have to run vmware-config.pl after startup.
>
> I found a solution in the vmware-forum-archives ...
>
> just patch /etc.init.d/vmware to install the required devices (vmnet...)
>
> ------------------snip----------------
> 815a816
> > for a in `seq 0 9`; do mknod /dev/vmnet$a c 119 $a; done
> ------------------snap----------------
>
> JeanM.